SEO for Restaurants
The table they book first, found before they open the apps
SEO for restaurants is about being the place that comes up when someone types 'Sunday roast' or 'Italian' with the town on a Thursday night. SEO & AI for restaurants: a menu Google can read, a booking page of your own, the occasions people search for in words.
From £499 per month on a fixed-price SEO & AI package.
- Which dishes, occasions and searches Google can see you for
- What we would fix first, and why
- No hard sell. A straight read on where the covers go.
Send your website and we'll point out one visibility issue, one enquiry issue and one practical improvement to start with.
What SEO for restaurants gets you
A restaurant search is a cuisine, an occasion or a dish, plus a place, usually tonight or this weekend. Birthday meal with the town, Sunday roast near me, private dining room. Most restaurant websites answer none of them, because the menu is a PDF and the booking button belongs to someone else.
Where restaurant websites leak bookings
The menu is a PDF or a photo. Google cannot read either, so every search for a dish with the town goes to a place that typed its menu out. Text on the page is the biggest fix.
The booking button belongs to someone else. The site sends people straight to an app with nothing of your own around it. A booking page that explains tables, times and deposits earns the direct booking.
Occasions are one line on the events page. Sunday roast, private hire, Christmas parties and bottomless brunch are separate searches by separate people. Each one you want more of needs its own page.
The questions people check are missing. Parking, dogs, allergens, kids, pre-theatre timing and walk-ins decide the booking. Buried in a FAQ or not there at all, they decide it against you.
The Business Profile is doing all the work. Restaurants near me is a map result. Wrong hours, a stale menu link, unanswered reviews and stock photos cost covers every week, and the website backs none of it up.
AI search and GEO for restaurants
Diners now ask AI tools where to eat for a birthday near them, which places have a private room, and whether the Sunday roast is any good. The answers draw on reviews that mention the dish and the occasion, menus the tool can read, and places whose details match everywhere.
So we spell the basics out: restaurant structured data with the cuisine, menu, hours and bookings, the menu as text on the page, a page for each occasion you want to fill, the practical answers in words, matching details on the site, the profile and the listing sites. Nobody can promise an AI answer will name you. We can make sure it never has to guess what you serve, when and for whom.
Rather diagnose it yourself first?
Our guide to how to get more restaurant bookings covers the same checks we run, in order. Fix what you can and come back for the rest.
Read the guideThree services, done properly
Most restaurants start with SEO & AI and add social for the dishes and the room.
SEO & AI
The menu as text, a booking page of your own, occasion pages, the practical answers, structured data, the Business Profile.
PPC
Paid search for the occasions and dates you need to fill, on for the season and off again.
Social Media
The food, the room and the people, for diners who want to see it before they book.
No mystery. Here’s the order.
The dishes and occasions you want against the searches you show for, the menu, the booking route, the profile.
The menu as text first, then the booking page, then the occasions that fill the room.
We write the missing pages, publish the practical answers, fix the profile to match.
Bookings and calls by occasion, not visits, and we keep going.
SEO Foundations £499 a month, SEO Growth £999. AI Visibility Foundations £749, AI Visibility Growth £1,499, each including the matching SEO package. Three months recommended, 30 days’ notice to cancel.
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We know a cover is a search for tonight
Every page we write answers what a diner checks before they book, in the words they type.
A free look first
The Website Leak Review shows where search is leaking before you spend anything with us.
No long-term lock-in
Give it time to work, but you can cancel with 30 days’ notice.
Straight talking
If something will not move the commercial outcome, we say so. A bigger traffic number is not the goal.
SEO for restaurants FAQs
Can a restaurant website compete with the booking apps on Google?
For searches with the town, the dish or the occasion in them, yes. The apps own the generic words. A readable menu and a booking page win the specific ones.
Should we put the full menu on the website rather than a PDF?
Yes, as text, with prices. Google and AI tools cannot read a PDF, and a photo is worse. Text ranks for dish and cuisine searches and gets the booking.
Do we need a page for every occasion?
Only the ones you want more of. Sunday roast, private hire and Christmas are the usual three. Each says what is included, how many it seats and how to book.
What does the Website Leak Review look at for a restaurant?
Which dishes, cuisines and occasions you appear for, whether the menu is readable, where the booking button goes, what the Business Profile is doing.
Not a restaurant?
Restaurants sit in our travel and hospitality SEO work. Every industry we support is on the small business SEO services hub.
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